[Forum] forum block manager - disable hide-buttons

[karlm]

On the forum block manager, I cannot find a method to stop people from hiding the blocks... whereas on other CMPS used in the past, I could.

Is this a feature not available on the FBM for VB - if not, it really should be as some will be using this as advertising space (such as myself).

[karlm]

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[karlm]

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[Lynne]

This has actually been asked about and answered quite a few times already. No, there is no option to hide the button. You need to either remove it from the template (FORUMHOME template) or use css to hide it.

[borbole]

DO you mean that you don''t want your members to disable the blocks? If so, as stated above from Lynne, delete that button from the FORUMHOME template.

Find there the following code:

<div id="sidebar_container"<vb:if condition="$show['sidebarposition'] == 'left'"> class="sidebarleft"</vb:if>>
        <a id="sidebar_button_link" href="#">
            <vb:if condition="$show['sidebarposition'] == 'left'">
            <img id="sidebar_button" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/tab-collapsed-left.png" alt="" />
            <vb:else />
            <img id="sidebar_button" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/tab-collapsed.png" alt="" />
            </vb:if>
        </a>
        <ul id="sidebar">
            {vb:raw sidebar}
        </ul>
    </div>

and replace it with:

<vb:if condition="$show['member']">
<div id="sidebar_container">
<a id="sidebar_button_link" href="#"></a>
        <ul id="sidebar">
            {vb:raw sidebar}
        </ul>
    </div>
<vb:else />
<div id="sidebar_container"<vb:if condition="$show['sidebarposition'] == 'left'"> class="sidebarleft"</vb:if>>
        <a id="sidebar_button_link" href="#">
            <vb:if condition="$show['sidebarposition'] == 'left'">
            <img id="sidebar_button" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/tab-collapsed-left.png" alt="" />
            <vb:else />
            <img id="sidebar_button" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/tab-collapsed.png" alt="" />
            </vb:if>
        </a>
        <ul id="sidebar">
            {vb:raw sidebar}
        </ul>
    </div>
</vb:if>

This will disable it for all the members. If you want to disable it for a certain group/s, have a look at this article and adjust the template conditional accordingly:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=231525

Hope it helps.

[karlm]

Thanks both

[borbole]

You are welcome.